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RangerJosey, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games

You think so huh? pulls on frock coat

Is that right? puts on tricorn hat

I don’t think Ralph agrees. “You’re goddamn right I don’t! - Ralph the Parrot”

CalipherJones,

He’s 100% right. Gamers buy terrible overpriced content all the time. Basically all of my friends that play WoW bought a 90$ a mount because it has an auction house on it. That’s more than the actual game costs.

Beetschnapps,

Gar???

samus12345,

Let’s say Switch 2 emulation doesn’t get good for a few years (which is totally possible, depending on how well Nintendo locked it up). He’s saying that if it’s the only way to play NEW Mario games, people will buy it at $80. He’s right, millions will, but there are some like me who are huge Mario fans who will refuse to support such naked greed. Enough to matter to them? Probably not.

But I hope Switch 2 emulation does get to a playable state sooner rather than later.

Sturgist, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games
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Except it’s totally not. Maybe the only 100% legal in every single country way, but not the only way by half. Fuck Nintendo. Fuck $80+ for a game. And fuck the switch 2.

TheDemonBuer,
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What other legal way is there that doesn’t require you to pay full price for the game?

Sturgist, (edited )
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In the case of them rereleasing old games without doing a remaster, in Canada at least, it is legal to have a digital back up for any game you own, and running it in an emulator is legal.

(Edit: I’m implying here that classic games are $80 on the Nintendo store, they are not. Still legal to have digital backups of modern games, still legal to emulate them as long as you own a physical copy.)

missingno,
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But then you still have to buy the game.

Sturgist, (edited )
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Sure, but it wouldn’t be $80 for most of them. (Edit: classic games on the Nintendo store are not $80, statement retracted. The general sentiment stands.)

Game deals is in New Westminster. Not necessarily great prices, but you can get Super Mario Cart for $60. And that’s a proper reseller, definitely get a better deal for a loose cart online…it doesn’t even have to be working. Get a better deal on one that isn’t functional, physical media degradation is one of the reasons why you’re able to keep digital copies.

missingno,
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I thought we were talking about Switch 2 games?

Sturgist, (edited )
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You think they’re going to sell repackaged SNES and N64 games for less than that?(Edit: incorrect, they are in fact less than $80) How bout switch 1 games? Those are “modern” so significantly cheaper, still legal to have a backup, still legal to emulate…and will be run in an emulator on the switch 2, no native backwards compatibility.
As for switch 2 games…just waiting for a while getting them 2nd hand means they’ll be cheaper, if you can actually get a hardcopy, and all the things I just said still apply…

missingno,
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They do not sell SNES and N64 games for $80, no. You know those are on the NSO app already, right?

Look, if you wanna be mad that Mario Kart World is $80, that's fair to be mad at. But you don't gotta make up misinformation.

Sturgist,
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Wasn’t intentionally spreading misinformation. Classic games, as you said, are cheaper. However switch 1 games are still $80. And my point about legally being able to emulate them stands.
I’ll retract my statements on the cost of legacy games here and go back through my previous comments and change them to reflect this.

missingno,
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Switch 1 games are not $80.

Sturgist,
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missingno,
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That's CAD, the article in the OP was about USD.

Sturgist,
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Just nitpicking now.

missingno,
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I can't tell if you were intentionally trying to mislead, but you know that this discourse was never about CAD, right? You know that the article is discussing USD, right?

It's not nitpicking to say that you've been misleading, whether intentionally or not.

Sturgist,
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Fair enough. Not doing it intentionally. Just a dumbfuck 🤷

Quicky,

Being in receipt of a gift.

But yes, that pricing is bullshit.

mesamunefire,

Buying it used? That used to be the norm. Or getting it at the library for free.

I believe Nintendo (and other industry leaders) are going to find out that their old games are the going to be the competition to their new games. If it’s too expensive and the old games are fun…there’s enough of a backlog for people to play.

That and indies.

warmaster,

Fuck everyone! You cool Gabe.

NoNotLikeThat, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games

No thanks. I’ll keep playing my old games.

You see, when a good or service is priced too high, it fails to sell. Economics, bitch!

vonxylofon, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games

Your friendly reminder that Half Life was $49 in 1998, which is roughly $100 today.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Your friendly reminder that there were less than 1/10th of the people buying video games back then than there are now.

Also, Half-Life didn’t have a BattlePass, Time Savers, and other microtransactions.

Bristingr,

Neither does Mario.

inclementimmigrant,

Your friendly reminder that gaming back in 1998 was still not selling millions of copies as compared to now and revenue has for gaming has been rising significantly since.

visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenues…

quack, (edited )

Cool, now do the cost of everything else and compare then to now and you might have some idea of why $80 for a video game is a bitter pill to swallow.

Friendly reminder that games from 1998 were just games and didn’t have endless predatory mechanics designed to cripple the game in some way to extract money from you after you bought them too.

frog_brawler, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games

I bought a switch and those Zelda games during Covid. When I moved, the switch got boxed up. It’s still in the box today.

I’ll be skipping Switch #2 - $80 games reinforces the decision.

Viri4thus, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games

For everyone chiming in with piracy (which I support): Layden is more calling Nintendo fans “junkies” than advocating for 80$ prices. His message (even in the face of Ryan’s LSG push) has always been “first party exclusivity sells consoles”.

drmoose, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games

Yup he’s right. Nintendo can charge whatever they feel like, add dlcs and monthly sub payments and 90% of people will buy it all the same.

missingno, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games
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If I have to pay $80 for Kirby Air Ride 2, I will pay $80 for Kirby Air Ride 2. I have waited 22 years for this game, there's never been anything else like it.

mesamunefire,

Good on ya, but you may want to see if your local library will have it as well.

Alk,
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I hope it has an accepter city escape mode

arakhis_, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games
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tacosanonymous, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games
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lol.

🏴‍☠️

Lembot_0001, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games

‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’

Can someone rephrase this sentence? I don’t understand it.

bjoern_tantau,
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People will buy the Switch 2 and its games despite the high price because of the exclusive Nintendo games you can only play on that console.

dormedas,

Which is amusingly also what Xbox and PlayStation had before everything started coming to PC.

0x01,

If you can only play mario on the switch, even if it costs a lot of money, people will generally buy the switch and the game.

Implying that people really like mario and that people are generally expected to do whatever it takes to play it.

catloaf,

What part is unclear? You want to play Mario, you buy a Nintendo console.

CarbonatedPastaSauce,

He’s basically saying “suck it up, buttercup”. They think people are going to have no choice but pay these prices, with all the crazy shit going on. Maybe the Switch 2 will be successful, but most of my adult video gamer friends have already said they are going to pass. Only the ones that still have small kids are considering it.

ragebutt,

He means “there are a ton of children with parents who cannot enforce boundaries and there are a ton of grown people who will make poor financial decisions”. Nintendo will exploit both

Hopefully someone will exploit Nintendo with a paper clip again

Weirdfish, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games

When I bought the switch I called it my $500 zelda machine.

I also have factorio now.

If a new mario, zelda, or factorio is available on switch 2, I’ll buy one.

adarza,

one summer back in ‘the day’ i was staying at a house that had a snes. guess what the one and only game we played all that summer was.

Sturgist,
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Factorio?

CarbonatedPastaSauce,

I am cringing in horror at how poorly my factories would run on a Switch. Do you find playing it to be an acceptable experience?

Weirdfish,

It’s the only platform I have to play it on, and switch doesn’t support the new space age expansion.

It did get many of the 2.0 updates, like the extended belt reader, free circuit wires, and all inserters are filters.

As far as acceptable, I love it. I’m sure I can’t build the crazy 10k science per minute monstrosities I’ve seen on youtube, but I’ve never really run into an lag issues with the bases I’ve built.

Zedstrian,

I imagine it’ll run much better on the Switch 2, given how well it runs on my Steam Deck, though I imagine that it would take a lot of adjustment to get used to using joystick controls versus the touchpad controls of the Steam Deck. Perhaps however the new ‘mouse-like controls’ work will be more helpful in that regard, but I can’t imagine even that would match the precision of a trackpad.

Don’t intend on supporting Nintendo’s crazy price increases myself, and will only get a Switch 2 if a way to hardware mod it becomes available, but I think it’s a bit ironic that the one non-first party game someone would specifically want to play on the Switch is also the one that not only never goes on sale, but also got a price increase.

CarbonatedPastaSauce,

And even with the increase it’s still a freakin’ bargain. Such a good game!

BrazenSigilos, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games

Sounds like someone thinks there is only one choice, buy or don’t.

🏴‍☠️Harhar! 🏴‍☠️

Ephera, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games

Needlessly absolute take. Yes, there’s going to be parents, who’d rather pay extra than look into what other games they could give their kid, as well as loyal Mario fans, who will pay pretty much any price. But there’s obviously also players who do weigh up their options based on price, and who will make different decisions when they have to decide between two titles, when one of them is cheaper. Especially with the additional invest for a new console and the more dire economic situation, I could see many players not buying into the Switch 2 at all.

Sterile_Technique, do games w ‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games
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